tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50150915194020142072024-03-13T21:06:09.589-07:00The Very Busy Resource TeacherAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-39214987062777639582013-09-08T19:28:00.002-07:002013-09-08T19:28:58.456-07:00At Least It's Still September? Currently...Well...I'm a week late - but better late than never! I had to force myself to get distracted from work to bring you my September Currently for <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/09/currently-september.html">Farley's Linky!</a><br />
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Listening: I LOOOOOOVE that Football Season is BACK! Watching football all day on Sunday is my idea of a funday!! I have 2 Fantasy Leagues going, so needless to say I may have to change my plan day so it doesn't get in the way of my football - Go Bears!</div>
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Loving: Well I've been in school for 3.5 weeks but I still have more to do in my classroom! It is coming along and I get TONS of compliments from my co-workers, but to me there is always more! I have a lot to hang up tomorrow before getting observed on Tuesday! I promise a classroom tour ASAP!</div>
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Thinking: Let's just say I have finally procrastinated enough to where I will not get a lot of sleep (plus the copier hates me)</div>
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Wanting: I'm doing interactive notebooks with all of my groups and I want to get to the fun part of my job of coloring, decorating, and completing the example pages!</div>
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Needing: My to-do list is miles long...but for tomorrow I HAVE to finish my pre-conference form since it is tomorrow morning at 7:45, I HAVE to finish my lesson plans because they are due at 8 AM, I HAVE to sort the papers so that I know which I need for my lessons this week, etc. etc.</div>
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<3: I never take enough time to myself and then everyone worries about me at work, and apparently I get crabby...huh who would've thought? SO I am going to make it my job this month (as a kick start) to take care of me! I think that will come easier when I finally feel settled in my classroom and caught up with my work...</div>
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1. I go to the gym every other week to meet with my personal trainer, and I'll sporadically go before work in the morning, but I want to make it a habit to go 3-4 days a week from now on - I pay for it so I want to make it worth it!</div>
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2. Let's just say I can't find my floor in my bedroom, and I'm pretty sure it's time to toss some shower gels! lol I've been sooooo focused on school that my home life is SCARY!!! Time to take care of that!</div>
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3. Now that I am done paying for my master's program in various ways, I want to set up a budget and stick to it so that I can pay off some of this credit card debt and move on to tackling other debt!</div>
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4. There are so many books I want to read, and I want to study for my certification tests, and I want to get to the gym more, and I want to do things for fun! BUT I never take time to myself - I always feel like there is SOMETHING I should be working on. However, from now on I will find at least one night if not more to dedicate to myself and what I WANT to do...not what I HAVE to do or THINK I HAVE to do...This will be a challenge!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-10521094800095936032013-08-09T22:19:00.000-07:002013-08-09T22:19:06.795-07:00Back from Being MIA: Classroom Under Construction - 1st Full Day in the RoomWell I've been MIA for a few weeks for a good reason...I was wrapping up my Master's in Educational Leadership including finishing my Internship Portfolio! I am proudly a Graduate!<div>
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So now that my Master's is completely finished, I finally had time to get into my classroom for more than 2 hours this summer...I logged 7 hours today (with distractions of catching up with other teachers) and now my classroom is officially under construction! I moved rooms this year (as pictures in previous posts have definitely showed lol), and have to get my room done by Wednesday because that's when the kiddos arrive! The time crunch is definitely there because Monday and Tuesday we have in-service meetings until 1 PM each day (However, I refuse to go in over the weekend - it is my LAST free weekend!) Here are the construction pictures as I like to call them!</div>
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This is part of the area behind my desk...all the books and binders on the 2nd shelf will be moving (along with all the non-green binders) because I feel like they are just sticking out like a sore thumb!</div>
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This is the front - I have a cute idea to make my desk look "pretty" - can't wait to share it with you!</div>
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I'm working on covering this <strike>BEAUTIFUL</strike> brown closet in my room (but my ADHD was in overdrive today while working so it didn't get finished lol). It already looks better even with just one door done! Wrapping paper is magical!</div>
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This is my create-a-bulletin board to cover up this boring blank wall. It's going to be my Word Wall. (Fabric and Borders do WONDERS!)</div>
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And this is the one bulletin board that I got completely finished today - others got fabric put on, but mainly today I worked on trying to unpack things and find space for them!</div>
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Definitely still a long way to go, but still not going in this weekend - instead I brought things home to do! Can't wait to show you the finished room! How is your room coming along?</div>
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Since it is now August, it is time to link up with Farley at <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/08/currently-august.html">Oh' Boy Fourth Grade</a> for the monthly Currently Linky!<br />
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Listening: <u>The Perks of Being a Wallflower</u> is one of my ALL TIME favorite novels! So naturally....I had to buy the movie when it came out, and while the book is ALWAYS better than the movie, the movie follows the book pretty closely!!<br />
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Loving: Last Saturday was my Master's Graduation Ceremony. Although they have it 3 weeks before the last class ends, I only have 2 assignments left, 2 discussion board posts (with a total of 4 comments to make on other people's posts), 1 quiz, and 1 final left && then I am officially done...I plan on finishing it this weekend so it's all done before my school year starts and I can hold that pretty little piece of paper in my hand!<br />
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Needing: I need to finish up the rest of this Master's work right now (while listening to <u>The Perks of Being a Wallflower</u>) and then start the label creating, printing, and laminating frenzy!<br />
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1. Cardstock, Printer Ink, and a Laminator are a must have, especially if you're creating your own classroom theme items, labels, etc.<br />
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2. 3M Outdoor Mounting Tape is THE BEST to use when mounting on classroom walls...it doesn't let anything fall off!<br />
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3. COFFEE!! Lately...well mainly all the time now, I have NOT been a morning person...and when working with elementary kiddos you need to be energized and ready to go...so coffee will be re-entering my life! (I kicked a LOT of my caffeine this summer....used to be at 2 Monsters and 1 Coffee a day...Now I'm down to 1 coffee a day sometimes although during the school year it'll be 1 coffee a day!) I <3 my Keurig!!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-2221497528373538872013-07-23T19:05:00.000-07:002013-07-23T19:19:39.056-07:00Well I Did It...Disclaimer: This is a Mess!Well I did it...I went into my classroom today for the first time since the week of Memorial Day...they moved my room and that last week I did the frantic pack...you know what I am talking about...the one where you start out packing nicely, labeling everything with what is exactly in the box and then BAM! You start to just shovel things into boxes and say you'll deal with it when it's time to unpack...well I forgot what I had done/left until I walked into the my classroom today...boy do I have a LOT of work to do in the next 3 weeks! (Along with a LOT of purging!)<br />
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Yup! Those are chairs laying on my kidney table...I have NO IDEA HOW I WANT TO SET UP THE ROOM THIS YEAR...HELP!!! lol (p.s. the shelves, and the bookcases can't move...and the computers could move somewhat if I get the tech guy to come back in after I told him just to leave them because I have no idea how else I should put them...)</div>
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And the piles just kept growing (all the stuff that was left on the shelves was from the teacher before me...I boxes up 95% of it today to give to the new special education teacher since I already have all my own things)</div>
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The bookshelf in the back there is now empty with the exception of some files that will be put into that stylish brown filing cabinet...I still need to ask our custodial staff if I can at least have it spray painted...</div>
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I only stayed for 2 hours today, so I only got to box up things for the new teacher (12 boxes worth of things!) and get some laminating done...I have a feeling I'll have to find another day to go back in this week maybe...and a whoooooole bunch next week, but my super sweet teacher's assistance asked if I wanted her to come in and help next week so of course I took her up on it! (Little does she know what she is walking in to...she may not come back after day one lol)</div>
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This is what I call the pile of fun laminating to cut! (insert groans here...) But I'm one lucky girl because my dad is cutting all of it out for me!! He really is the best!!</div>
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Have any of you gone into your classrooms yet? Don't be ashamed to share your photos too! We all know what it looks like at the beginning...</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-22478587716336827692013-07-22T13:51:00.002-07:002013-07-22T13:51:50.229-07:00Monday Made It...Part 2!It's Monday again! (Seriously, where is this summer going??) Which means it is time for the Monday Made It Linky with <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2013/07/monday-made-it-72213-early.html">Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics!</a><br />
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As we remember, last week I started my spray painting party! WELL...the fantastic Chicagoland weather would not allow me to spray paint anymore until YESTERDAY!! (it was either over 90 degrees, above 65% humidity, OR BOTH ALL WEEK!) But...at least I had one good day so I could finish up my Monday Made It from last week!<br />
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My Driveway was COVERED with Items!</div>
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I am going to string the letters for my name together with black ribbon and hang it by my desk!</div>
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The mini drawers I had for awhile, but they were navy blue and dingy, so they needed a face lift to match my color scheme! There drawers will be featured in a bit!</div>
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The larger drawers are for my different color paper to print on, but they were white and once again...didn't go with my color scheme! :)</div>
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Remember those blue sentence strip storage boxes I featured before that I bought at Lakeshore Learning, and I said I would probably paint them so they could match? Yep, my OCD got me and I did it!</div>
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While the navy blue drawer sets had lime green handles that would match, I had 1 mini drawer set that came with silver handles instead...SO the lime green drawers will go in these mini pink drawer sets and then the spray painted pink handle drawers will go in the lime green mini set!</div>
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Step #1: Long story short, I had one lonely roll of pink duct tape that I couldn't return...and didn't know what I was going to do with it...until I remembered on pinterest everyone using scrapbooking paper to cover a pringles can to hold their rulers...I thought...why not use the duct tape! So I did!</div>
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Step #2: I used a furniture wipe to clean out the inside of the pringles container (after dumping out as many of the crumbs as I could)</div>
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Step #3: I used the measuring tape to measure the circumference of the pringles can and then just measured around the duct tape and marked it off (I gave a quarter inch overlap so the can didn't show through.) I used the ruler to make the straight line across the tape for when I cut the strips.</div>
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Step #4: It's hard to see, but after putting the first one on, I drew a line down the can where the tape started since there is an overlap. I also had an over lap with the strips since the tape was 2 inchese side and the can is an odd number. I just kept going, measure, cut, tape, measure, cut, tape, etc. The last row I had to cut the tape down the middle because it was to wide. And then the final product!</div>
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It's not perfect, but it'll do for this year, and it works! I'm going to add a cute ruler label once I print it out and laminate it!</div>
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One of my coworkers got me this AWESOME quote picture that, if you knew me, fits me PERFECTLY! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-42924696952894799282013-07-20T09:46:00.001-07:002013-07-20T09:46:18.132-07:00Oh My Goodness!! ANOTHER AWESOME Giveaway!!Marie over at <a href="http://skippersjungle.blogspot.com/2013/07/birthday-giveaway.html">It's a Jungle Out There!</a> Is having a killer giveaway for her birthday! Go check it out - and wish her a Happy Belated Birthday! (It was July 19th)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-82777929014670078592013-07-20T08:46:00.000-07:002013-07-20T08:46:38.974-07:00Blog Hoppin' Facebook Frenzy Giveaway!!Tori over at <a href="http://toristeachertips.blogspot.com/">Tori's Teacher Tips</a> has an AWESOME Blog Hoppin' Facebook Frenzy going on this weekend joined by 22 other bloggers!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-73613320551655645392013-07-15T23:23:00.001-07:002013-07-15T23:23:49.834-07:00Liebster AwardI'm so lucky and honored to have been nominated by Susan from <a href="http://thoughtsfrommrss.blogspot.com/">Thoughts From Mrs. Susan</a> for the Liebster Award! It is an award that recognizes new blogs! Thanks so much Susan; you're the sweetest!<br />
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<b>The requirements in order to accept my nomination are:</b><br />
1. Link back to the blog that nominated me<br />
2. Nominate 5 blogs with fewer than 200 followers<br />
3. Answer the questions posted by my nominator<br />
4. Share 11 random facts about myself<br />
5. Create 11 questions for my nominees<br />
6. Contact my nominees and let them know I nominated them!<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">Questions from Susan:</strong><br />
<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">1. How do you spend your free time?</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">Teachers get free time? hehe just kidding! In my free time I like to hang out with my boyfriend and friends - usually watching movies, playing games, doing something outside, etc. I also like to read, scrapbook, surf blogs and pinterest for new ideas for my classroom, and blog!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">2. What makes you laugh?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">A good comedy movie/show, a good book, my boyfriend, friends, and family</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">3. How long have you been teaching?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">I am going into my 5th year of teaching. I taught for 3 years at the high school level, then had the opportunity to switch to the elementary level last year and love it!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">4. What is your favorite subject to teach? Why?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">As a resource teacher, I mainly work on Reading all day, but do have other groups such as Math and Writing (all depending on my kiddos IEPs). I love teaching reading because of the great connections my students make and conversations we have. I love teaching Math because it's so literal, comes natural to me, and has so many real world applications to it!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">5. Where is your favorite place to vacation?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">Anywhere warm, but with a dry heat! I loved visiting my best friend in Arizona, but she's back here now so not too many reasons to visit there. I also have family in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that I LOVE visiting! It's so gorgeous up there too!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">6. If you could only take one thing on a trip, what would it be?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">If I could only choose one thing to take on a trip, I would probably go with chapstick! It's just something I have to have at all times! I even have a little holder on my school lanyard that holds a chapstick in it! One time I forgot it and the librarian at my school just happened to have a brand new one she hadn't used and gave it to me! So Sweet!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">7. What is your favorite book?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">Eek just one?? If I had to choose just one book, I would go with The Perks of Being a Wallflower (I read it YEARS before it became a movie though).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">8. What do you like best about where you live?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">There is ALWAYS something to do! I live in a large suburb with everything you can imagine; plus I'm only 30 minutes away from Chicago so I can go to the museums, parks, or anything else with a quick drive or train ride in!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">9. If you could meet anyone, who would it be?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">I would LOVE to meet any player from my favorite sports teams! (White Sox, Bears, Hawks). I've contemplated hanging out in the city this summer just to see if I could see one of them out with the Stanley Cup as it makes its rounds! No luck yet :-( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">10. If you had a day to yourself, what would you do?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">A day to myself with no work, homework, or cleaning? I would get a manicure and pedicure, read, watch all my favorite movies (I have a HUGE collection), and probably pig out on all that food that is bad for you, like my favorite, ICE CREAM!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">11. What is your greatest accomplishment?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">I'd have to say getting my Master's (well technically I just started my last 5 week course today, but I know it'll fly and I'll pass with an A so it's okay :-) ) while teaching (most of it while starting with a completely new age group, in a new school, with new policies, new curriculum, new everything! It was like 1st year of teaching all over again!) and tutoring 15 hours a week after school as a second job. All while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. When it's all over, I'm not sure what I'll do with my spare time...maybe some things under Question #10!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">1. I LOVE to organize! I feel like it's an obsession of mine - and yet (as you can tell from my "Show Us Your Stuff" Linky Posts) I feel like I NEVER have time to do it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">2. I LOVE doing math word problem - I always have ever since they're first introduced in school. I love the challenge and how they make you think.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">3. I am the proud owner of 3 cats and 1 pup that I love because they are my children.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">4. I'm a die-hard White Sox fan, born and raised, and my boyfriend is a Cubs fan (some how we get along, although I tend to get a little "In Your Face!" about it at times lol)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">5. I'm a perfectionist. So while tasks are easy to do, they become time consuming because it has to be perfect...i.e. my Master's internship that I now have 3 weeks to complete.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">6. I save Sundays in the Fall for football. All day from Noon-10:30ish. I also participate in a Fantasy Football League!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">7. I did gymnastics for 10 years and played softball for 15 years. People can't believe it when I say I played catcher because I'm tiny.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">8. I love being in the outdoors, going camping, going to Lakehouses, and just relaxing....my allergies don't agree with that very much though.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">9. I love my mom almost 8 years ago when I was 20. It took a big tolls on my family and me, but I did the one thing she wanted me to do and that was graduate from college. I ended up graduating with honors and now I'm almost done with my master's! I think she would be very proud.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">10. I LOVE LOVE LOVE coffee!! Especially more so now that I quit drinking energy drinks.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">11. I have a tendency to over analyze which in turn causes the problem to actually happen, makes things take too long to complete, and makes me worry something is right. I'm getting better with it though and starting to get a "go with the flow" attitude...with some things at least!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">1. What was your favorite subject when you were in school? Why?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">2. If you had to choose one food to eat the rest of your life, what would it be and why?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">3. Why did you decide to start a blog?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">4. What got you inspired to teach?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">5. What were your goals for this summer? How many are accomplished (or almost accomplished) and which ones are they?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">6. What is your favorite part of teaching?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">7. What do you feel is the hardest part of teaching?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">8. What do you do for fun?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">9. If you could choose one place to live, money doesn't matter - cost is no object, where would it be and why?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">10. What is your dream vacation?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Nobile; line-height: 24px;">11. What are your goals for this upcoming school year?</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.4mulafun.com/">Jennifer Smith-Sloane @ 4mulaFun</a></div>
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<a href="http://4thgraderacers.blogspot.com/">Alyssa Roetheli @ 4th Grade Racers</a></div>
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The things spray painted green are letters that spell out my name that I am going to string together with ribbon to hang above my desk!<br />
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I used spray paint specifically for plastic and that is glossy so it'll have a nice finish. It took about 3 and 1/2 cans (give or take on the 1/2) for the outside of the Book Bins and the two little tubs from the Dollar Tree.<br />
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I also finished creating my classroom decor, but don't know how everyone always has picture collages on their blogs of things they made via the computer so that'll have to wait until I figure that out, or it gets hung up in my classroom, which ever comes first! Happy Monday!</div>
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1st Stop: IKEA! I love this store because it's so cheap! And now they have a loyalty card, so you get certain discounts each month!<br />
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I got 2 of the lime green body pillows for my reading corner, I got the black side table for my reading corner, I got 3 of the tall floor lamps in hopes to not use the florescent lights in my room!, I got the lamp base and pink lamp shade for my desk (might as well make it cozy since I'll be spending tons of time there!), and then I bought 12 of the lime green frames and 12 of the hot pink frames to hold my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Desire-to-Inspire-Subway-Art-Chalkboard-Brights-and-Pastels-738363">Desire to Inspire Brights Subway Art and Classroom Rules Posters</a> by Hope King over at <a href="http://shenanigansinsecond.blogspot.com/">2nd Grade Shenanigans</a>!<br />
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Next Stops: Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree, and Five Below!<br />
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At Walmart I got 20 more clear pencil pouches for 47 cents each! (These ones will be to hold their tickets [see below] and their SPOTS [our PBIS incentive]), more laminating pouches (I'm sure they'll get used quickly!), and then this super cute, perfect sized pink create! It's the size of a desktop hanging file holder, but it was only $3! It's "technically" a locker crate, but as teachers we always use items for other things than their original intention. ;-)</div>
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At Target I got the gift wrap (See Below) and more of these pails from the Dollar Spot! (I already have tons of them that I use to hold markers, pens, tickets, etc.) These 2 are going to be used to hold the students' numbers by my job chart so I can remember who had a job already and who hasn't (since they'll be getting "paid" for their jobs I definitely want to be fair!). I'm going to change out the ribbon on them to one of the zebra print ribbons that I have!</div>
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I did ended up exchanging my Dollar Tree erasers because my boyfriends' Dollar Tree had 8 packs instead of 6 packs AND these ones are way cuter! :-)</div>
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Then I went to Five Below and I got these chairs in black to match my room! (They didn't have the fun bright colors at my Five Below, only basic colors :-( ) I got 2 chairs for $5 each to put in my reading corner!</div>
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On the the next! - Lakeshore Learning! (A teacher store by me) - This store I bought a TON at so be prepared! lol</div>
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This store takes my money year round, but I feel it is the best teaching store in the area!! First, everything I got was 20% off! The Planner in the picture was free (Not sure what exactly I'm going to do with it because I write my lesson plans on the computer, but who can pass up free?) I got a Common Core Reading Comprehension Practice Book for Grade 3 (I'll be going to back for the other grades since I have another 20% off coupon!). I LOVE this book because it's differentiated into 3 different levels, and gives a correlation chart to guided reading levels!</div>
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Then I got 2 of the sentence strips storage boxes - 1 for the blank sentence strips and 1 for the ones that I can save for the next year. Also these may be getting spray painted because the blue just doesn't go with all my other items (OCD, I know lol). (I also got another border storage that rolls up because my other one is over stuffed :-X)</div>
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I bought 4 packs of the tickets because I am going to implement parts of Teri's Classroom Management System over at <a href="http://acupcakefortheteacher.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-new-behavior-reward-system.html">A Cupcake for the Teacher</a>! They're super cute, but I bought a ton because I don't feel like laminating all the little pieces...mainly I don't want to add that to the already tons of cutting that I will have lol.</div>
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ANNNND I bought the boho birds, teal gift wrap (Target - hard to see the color in the picture), Teal Appeal Letters (I WISH all letters came prepunched!!), and green border for my Door Decor this year! (Of course the green border will be used for other borders as well since it's part of my theme - but I could only find this color that I wanted at Michael's, AND it was buy 2 get 1 free!)</div>
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PHEW That was 5 HOURS of shopping right there! I also finally got my lime green and hot pink pom-poms to go with my zebra print pom-poms from Hobby Lobby! BUT with the exception of a few random things (art supplies, fabric, etc.), I am DONE shopping! (I have to be done otherwise I'll be more broke than I already am lol). Off to upload my Decor that I finished creating to Office Max so it's printed in high quality versus my printer! <3<br />
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The 9 books, 2 border storages, and 3 packages of Birthday Certificates were from the Dollar Spot! How could I pass up books for $1 that were lower leveled books?!</div>
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I got 20 bottles of glue (one for each of the kiddos supply bins that I'm assembling) for 50 cents each! My boyfriend said, "What if they go cheaper later in the summer?" My response, "Target has a 90 day return policy. I'll just return them and buy them again!" :-)</div>
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The border storage (I only found one before) I'm going to use for my Common Core "I Can" statement cards that I'm going to be purchasing from <a href="http://jasonsonlineclassroom.com/">Jason's Online Classoom</a>'s TPT Store! His are exactly what I've been looking for because they have great visual examples of each standard on the card too! Check them out! But I needed 3 border storages because I need one for each grade level I see!</div>
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Lastly, I forgot who's blog I saw them on (my apologies - I will try and remember!!) But I bought myself the <a href="http://www.pilotpen.us/Brands/FriXion.aspx">Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens</a>! These ones are Pink, Orange and Purple, gel ink. I tried them out and they are WONDERFUL! Best erasable pens ever!</div>
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On to the next! I went to Michael's and got Zebra Print Value Pack papers 3 for $10!! (I think they misplaced the sign, but I still got the deal!) That way I can use it for backgrounds on different posters I hang up or virtually anything!<br />
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I got 2 of the glitter koozies because I thought they were cute and I can use them for pen holders. They were only 2 for $1!<br />
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Lastly from Michael's I bought the glitter tape that I have been eyeing for weeks! (I got a 40% off coupon in and e-mail and decided it was time to use it on that. PLUS they were on sale from $14.99 down to $8.99!) This will make decorating my clothespins easier, faster, and less messy! (Last year I did the whole modpodge actual glitter ones which worked but took awhile to drive and had glitter everywhere! lol)<br />
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I got my kiddos erasers and pencil sharpeners from the Dollar Tree (LOVE THAT STORE!). I realized I miscounted on the erasers (I was exhausted at this point) so I'll have to go back and get one more. (However, I also want to check the Dollar Tree by my boyfriend's house, because when we were there a month ago, his Dollar Tree had 8 erasers for $1 versus the 6 erasers I got for $1).<br />
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The 4th stop was Staples! Since there was a misprint in their Ad, I really got lucky! I got each 2 pack of scissors for 85 cents! Their Ad said $1 for the 2 pack, but there was supposed to be a limit of 2 - which to my benefit, got left out of the Ad! Then I got 15% off with my Back to School Pass! (I'm pretty sure this thing has already paid for itself!).<br />
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I got the shoe tape dispenser for $5.95 down from $9.99, AND it comes with jewels if I want to bedazzle it ;-)<br />
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As you can see I got more of the friXion pens AND staples had them as highlighters too! I tried the highlighters and they smeared a little bit, but I think I just didn't give the highlighter enough time to dry. I figure I'll try them again and if anything I'll just return them and tell them they consistently smear ink. (I hope they don't though!).<br />
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I of course picked up the 1 cent eraser caps, bic pens, and index cards. I got 4 of each since I did 2 separate purchases, AND they rang up free with the Back to School Pass! (I shared a package of bic pens and eraser caps with my dad :-) )<br />
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Staples also has an AWESOME binder recycling program! Bring in an old binder and get $2 off your new binder - with no limit as to how many you can do! So I took in 6 old, dingy binders and walked out with 6 brand new ones that'll match the binder organization I'm doing this year! (1 1/2" binders went from $5.99 each to $3.98 with the recycling, to $3.38 because of the Back to School Pass, and the 2" binder went from $6.99, to $4.98, to $4.23)<br />
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Then there's Office Max! The top photo is from a couple days ago (some items were even from the beginning of June too) then the bottom picture was from today. I LOVE my new planner and was very excited when July 1st hit so that I could start using it already!<br />
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I ended up exchanging the green folders for the blue folders because I changed my mind on the colors I wanted to use for the different grade levels (to make it easier on myself this summer I kept the same colors. Next summer when/if I have more time I'll change all the colors over).<br />
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The Flair marker pens I got at the end of June for buy one get one free! <br />
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And the plastic pencil cases in the top one I got them for 50 cents each! They apparently had the wrong sign up and they were supposed to be $2 each....naturally the wrong sign was in my favor - when I went back today the fixed the sign :-( Looks like I'll have to do something else for the kiddos reward tickets and PBIS spots.<br />
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I picked up a couple more 25 cent rulers so I had an even number from the picture above, 2 of the little square post-it note cubes (only $1 each), 2 more glues because they were only a penny each, and then these cool refillable <a href="http://www.pilotpen.us/ProductGroup/1249-B2P-Ball-Point.aspx">Pilot B2P Ballpoint Retractable Pens</a>! They're made out of recycled plastic bottles. They had black, blue, green, red, and purple in it - and on clearance for $6 for 15 pens! <br />
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Then there's some other random little things that were all on sale of course too!<br />
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Also, apparently with the Office Max reusable bag, if I shop there within the next couple weeks with the bag they'll fill it with goodies because I'm a teacher!<br />
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Well that's my recent shopping spree to add to my "piles"! Please tell me I'm not alone with my addiction?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-36167059135186591772013-07-09T22:37:00.003-07:002013-07-09T22:37:49.636-07:00Diary of a First Year Teacher: Giveaway!!!<a href="http://fromafirstyearteacher.blogspot.com/2013/07/giveaway.html?spref=bl">Diary of a First Year Teacher: Giveaway!!!</a>: Check out this awesome giveaway!! You get to choose any 3 products you want-how great is that!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-23564456199468247432013-07-09T20:27:00.000-07:002013-07-09T20:27:15.082-07:00Show Off Your Stuff Linky...Again - Blame Target!! ;-)Okay...so I have ONE more pile, but that is because Target put out their Back to School stuff; including in the Dollar Spot section, and I just COULDN'T resist!! SO here's one more pile to add to <a href="http://bainbridgeclass.blogspot.com/2013/07/show-off-your-piles-linky-party.html">Christina's Linky Party</a>!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-72129388415296923612013-07-09T15:50:00.001-07:002013-07-09T15:50:21.295-07:00"Show Us Your...Stuff" Linky!Man I feel like I haven't posted in FOREVER. I've wanted to do the Monday Made Its...and haven't...I've wanted to be able to post awesome "look what I've done so far this summer for my classroom!" posts...but can't...because I've been working solely on my Master's program (not how I imagined my summer...). Enter: <a href="http://bainbridgeclass.blogspot.com/2013/07/show-off-your-piles-linky-party.html">Christina's Show Us Your Stuff Linky Party!</a><br />
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Now...you know you all have piles and piles of stuff that you either bought this summer or brought home this summer. My reason for all the piles:</div>
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1. I've already done back to school shopping....and container shopping...and well everything classroom shopping including hitting up Scholastics Book Warehouse Sale for a SECOND time this year!</div>
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2. I'm moving classrooms this year, and didn't know when I would get back in mine. SO I brought almost ALL things personal home...plus I wanted to organize it all this summer...now that I have only 4-5 weeks left (including having to set up and organize an entire new classroom!!)...and after taking these pictures...I have realized I have got to get my BUTT in gear!! </div>
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Alright...here goes nothing...don't go running and hiding from the scary mess!!! (Like I often want to lol)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-46480073067333953602013-07-02T12:48:00.001-07:002013-07-02T13:29:03.934-07:00Where did summer go??Time to buckle down. 6 weeks left to get my master's work completed, my home life organized, school stuff organized and ready to start the beginning of the year, and get my new classroom unpacked, organized, and set up. Where did summer go??<br />
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<b>Listening: </b>For some reason Elf is on TV right now; maybe they have the whole "Christmas in July" Theory, but it's okay because I love this movie! Also, my boyfriend has been dog sitting his sister's dogs for the the past 10 days and we're getting ready to take them back to his sister's now! They're too cute though :-(</div>
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<b>Thinking:</b> I really need to get my butt in gear! I have so much that I want to organize for work and home! And definitely a lot more purging to be done! Especially so I can set up one of the spare rooms and an office and creation station for myself and then the other space I want as a nice, neat, organized storage area for all the stuff I don't need to unpack (i.e. kitchen stuff). For work I have just bags and bags of stuff that I bought for my classroom and NOTHING is organized or set up with it! AND I still haven't sorted through everything I brought home to purge, organized any of it, created anything I wanted to for school, or feel like I'm any where near ready to go back in 6 weeks!! Hopefully they'll call soon saying my new classroom is ready; I feel like that'll get me motivated to get off my butt and get moving!!<br />
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<b>Wanting: </b>My master's to be done! It is driving me crazy! Okay not really crazy, but it's almost like I have super bad senioritis, making me procrastinate && not want to work on it! lol I have 4 weeks until my graduation ceremony, 5 weeks until all my internship stuff is due, and 7 weeks until I finish my final class! I have 1 week left of my class I'm in now, then 5 weeks of the other class (my last one), and I'm officially done with Master's #1! Just have to try and keep the half full attitude....and keep going to starbucks away from some distractions to get this work done!<br />
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<b>Tips, Tricks, or Hints: </b> I only started a blog a few months ago, and only just recently really had time to start using it. I'm still definitely learning as I go, and often get frustrated, but have definitely gotten better with that! Leading into my tip: Just go with it! It doesn't have to be perfect and it definitely won't be when you first start so just roll with it! I take any suggests and go with them because they will only help me become a better blogger! Am I where I want to be right now with blogging? No but I know I will get there with it! <br />
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<b>Second Tip: </b>Join Linky Parties! I have learned so much from even just participating in the Currently linky. I do have about 4 more posts you'll be seeing after this because I found more to join! Plus they are tons of fun to participate in and you get to meet new people in the blogging world! Just make sure you follow the requirements! :-)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-92161037739930352682013-06-27T23:15:00.003-07:002013-06-27T23:18:29.673-07:00TOO EXCITED TO SLEEP SO....Some Class Room Theme Decorations I Purchased!<span style="text-align: center;">Tomorrow is the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Champions Victory Parade & Rally and I.CAN'T.WAIT. to join 2 Million or MORE of my closest friends to celebrate with my boys!! WHICH also means I am too excited to sleep even though I need to be up in less than 4 hours :-)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"WEEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS, AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING 'TIL THE END!!!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the 2010 Parade when they won - I can only IMAGINE what tomorrow will be like!! (well technically today!!) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is RIGHT when they had the game winning goal and Crawford protected their goal like a BEAST!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a picture of them with THE Cup that they brought back home to the Chi!!!</td></tr>
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And now on to the School Related portion of the post!...Since I can't sleep, I thought I would share some of the items I recently purchased for my classroom next year to go with my theme!<br />
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This is a cute picture frame that I found at Hobby Lobby for my desk!</div>
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And another frame for my desk to put a picture in (also from Hobby Lobby!)<br />
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And one more frame from Hobby Lobby! (I love that store! They have great things for teachers to use, and they always have great sales and coupons!)<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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Hope King over at <a href="http://shenanigansinsecond.blogspot.com/">Second Grade Shenanigans</a>, she has wonderful decor she was posting which is how I got inspired to start on my own! I loved what she was making, but wanted it to match the zebra print theme that I have in my room and change things to make it my own obviously, and since I'm a resource teacher I often don't need as many things that come in the amazing theme and decor packages that you see on Teachers-Pay-Teachers. So I'm giving it a whirl! <br />
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I've also been using Ashley Hughes' super cute and amazing clipart over at <a href="http://www.theschoolsupplyaddict.com/">TheSchoolSupplyAddict</a>! If I could afford her whole store I would buy it! The great thing is that her clipart is in png file form, so instead of trying to erase the background of an image in word, it's already background free and easy to use!<br />
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I've also been using <a href="http://mareetruelove.blogspot.com/">Maree Trulove</a>'s rainbow zebra paper pack, <a href="http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/">Kevin and Amanda Fonts for Peas</a> fonts, and <a href="http://bythebutterfly.com/">By The Butterfly</a> fonts for my classroom decor! Right now the decor is only for my personal use, until I learn all I need for commercial use and doing everything legally! :-)<br />
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Here is a Sneak Peak of the Supply Box Labels I created for my classroom decor! (not the best quality photo but my phone is acting up! :( - they're in multiple colors, but my theme is only going hot pink, lime green, and zebra print!) </div>
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Loving: That I am on summer break! Although I have not done anything productive that I said I was going to the past 2 weeks...I really need to step up my A game here...Otherwise before I know it, it will be August! I AM loving the the Blackhawks made it to the Stanley Cup and can't wait to watch the finals starting Wednesday!</div>
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3 Vacay Essentials: My iPad - has my books to read, connection to civilization, and my music! Bathing Suit - because I would only be somewhere warm where I can swim and get a good tan! Good Company - vacations alone are nice but definitely boring after awhile, therefore, you need good company to have fun with while on vacay!</div>
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1. AIMSweb benchmarking is over - a long two days of benchmarking the whole school and all I wish is that I could hear the end of the passages! Since this was the last time of the school year, I had so many kiddos trying to stay to finish reading the stories because they won't read the same ones next year; even one wanted to come back and get the binder when we were done testing so that they could finish reading the passages!</div>
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4. I have 20 school days left and I feel like they'll be the longest ones yet - I had 2 substitutes this week because of the AIMSweb and let's just say, these were not the best times that I ended up having substitutes in my classroom...I've never had a problem before which is interesting.</div>
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5. Now that benchmarking is over, it is time to start testing sight words and guided reading levels. Data, Data, Data! Bring on another week! - at least this one is supposed to warm up and include sunshine!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-41518285639776536392013-04-23T19:19:00.000-07:002013-04-23T19:22:07.945-07:00Last Week's (April 19th) Five for Friday Linky Party - Attempt 1 :-)As I've mentioned before I am new to the blogging world, so today I am going to attempt to participate in <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/04/five-for-friday-linky-partyapril-19th.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> Five for Friday Linky Party from last week (This will be my trial run for future Five for Friday and other Linky Parties!). The Five for Friday Linky Party involves listing 5 random things from Friday or throughout the week. While I won't have pictures for last week or this week, I'll work on adding those in as I get used to this.<br />
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1. The end of the school year is quickly approaching which means getting the students more motivated is becoming a challenge. Integrating Quantum Learning more and Brain Breaks more has definitely been beneficial!<br />
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2. We have been very busy at our school with the transition of the Common Core which has led me to more and more blogs and TPT stores - which then also tells me that I'm spending more time on the sites and getting sucked in, putting me behind on other things that need to get done. :-) Including this blog post and attempting to figure out how to create a blog button.<br />
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3. Many schools around me had one or multiple "Rain Days" due to flooding but my kiddos stuck out the rain and made it in!<br />
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4. My mind is already thinking of all the things I want to change for next year and what I want to accomplish over the summer. The list is a mile long already...it's going to be one busy summer!<br />
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5. With only 22 school days left, and being a special education teacher, it is time for Data Collection! Lots of testing coming my way which means finding other activities that the kiddos can work on independently while I test the others.<br />
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Enjoy! I promise to work on getting better at blogging...It's on my summer list as well ;-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-10034013782380669502013-04-13T14:21:00.001-07:002013-04-24T05:06:50.531-07:00Books, Books, and More Books!So recently I got this urge to read for enjoyment (I know something teachers RARELY get to do during the school year!). I'm currently working on my Master's in Educational Leadership (just 3 classes to go!) and I'm also part of my school's School Improvement Team. So instead of finishing the 3rd novel of the Millennium trilogy or picking another one of the 50 million books on my "To Read List", naturally I head to Barnes and Noble to pick up Education Books. I selected 3 books this time, with 4 others in my Amazon cart. The first 3 I selected are:<br />
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1. <u>Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement</u> By: Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman<br />
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2. <u>The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results</u> By: Douglas B. Reeves</div>
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3. Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement 2nd Edition By: Ceri B. Dean, Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, Howard Pitler, BJ Stone, and The ACSD<br />
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This is another great book for my Master's, and since many teachers will ask what they can do in their classroom to help all students, this will be a great reference guide. While I don't teach in a "normal" classroom, I am sure there are things in here that I will be able to tie into my resource room.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11336922035163918823noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5015091519402014207.post-8557861106880562552013-04-07T14:15:00.002-07:002013-04-24T05:07:09.431-07:00Hello Blogging World!<span style="color: lime;"><b>After a year of exploring all of the wonderful blogs in Teacherland, I thought it was time I start my own! I'm new to this and not sure what I'll be putting in here but I am always up for new adventures and challenges! I still have to figure out all the kinks including how to truly participate in the Currentlys, which is my first post! The Currently is created by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ccenter%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/%22%3E%3Cimg%20border=%220%22%20src=%22http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z343/ladybugteacher/new%20album/farleybutton.png%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/center%3E">Farley</a> - You should check out her blog, it's amazing! (Just click on her name and it'll take you there!) Anywho I am off to do more work...or enjoy the weather which ever comes first! :-)</b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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